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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Awe.
(d) Pride.

2. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Euphony and personification.
(b) Personification and consonance.
(c) Consonance and assonance.
(d) Assonance and euphony.

3. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
(a) Keen and attentive determination.
(b) A heavy feeling of apathy.
(c) Slow, boring, repetitive work.
(d) Clumsy and random movement.

4. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Soar.
(b) Break.
(c) Buckle.
(d) Stir.

5. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

2. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

4. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?

5. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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